Andrea Blanco-Redondo

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Andrea Blanco-Redondo is a Spanish photonics engineer and physicist who works at the University of Central Florida as Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) Endowed Professor in the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL). [1] She is known for her discovery of optical quartic solitons; [2] [3] her research interests also include topological photonics, [2] [4] quantum optics, [5] nanophotonics, [6] photonic crystals, [7] and slow light. [6] [7]

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Education and career

Blanco-Redondo earned a master's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Valladolid in 2006, [8] including research in England at Aston University. [6] She completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of the Basque Country in 2014. [8]

From 2007 to 2014 she worked in industry, for the Telecom Unit of Spanish firm Tecnalia. From 2013 to 2019 she was affiliated with the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, as a student Marie Curie Fellow, postdoctoral research fellow, Professor Harry Messel Research Fellow, lecturer, and senior lecturer. In 2019 she moved to Nokia Bell Labs as a researcher, soon becoming head of silicon photonics. [8] She took her present position as Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) Endowed Professor at the University of Central Florida in 2023. [1]

Recognition

Blanco-Redondo was the 2014 runner-up for the Ada Byron Prize for Spanish women in technology. [9] She was the 2016 recipient of the Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize of the Australian and New Zealand Optical Society. [10]

Optica named her as an Optica Ambassador in 2018, [11] [5] and as a 2024 Optica Fellow, "for her discovery of pure-quartic solitons and pioneering contributions to topological quantum photonics". [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Optica Announces 2024 Fellows Class, Optica, 30 October 2023, retrieved 2023-11-05
  3. ↑ "New class of optical soliton discovered", Optics.org, SPIE, 2 February 2016, retrieved 2023-11-05
  4. ↑ Choi, Charles Q. (25 March 2020), "Topological Photonics: What It Is and Why We Need It; Lasers, chips, and quantum circuitry could all benefit from this obscure phenomenon", IEEE Spectrum, retrieved 2023-11-05
  5. 1 2 Calero, Juan F. (25 July 2018), "Andrea Blanco. Cómo llevar la fotónica a otro nivel (y por qué todos nos beneficiaremos de ello)", Innova Spain (in Spanish), retrieved 2023-11-05
  6. 1 2 3 Bergé, Luc (21 May 2019), "Interview with Andrea Blanco-Redondo: Do what you love and never give up", e-EPS: Facts and info from the European Physical Society, retrieved 2023-11-05
  7. 1 2 Shaffer, Clinton (31 January 2014), "A Breakthrough In Silicon Photonic Research", Photonics Online, retrieved 2023-10-05
  8. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of Central Florida, retrieved 2023-11-05
  9. ↑ Rucabado, Beatriz (16 January 2015), "La invisibilidad doble de la mujer tecnóloga: Andrea Blanco, accésit en 2014 del Premio Ada Byron, reivindica la investigación femenina", El Mundo (in Spanish), retrieved 2023-11-05
  10. ↑ Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize, Australian and New Zealand Optical Society, retrieved 2023-11-05
  11. ↑ "Andrea Blanco-Redondo", Biographies, Optica, retrieved 2023-10-05
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